Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

You know I'm really starting to feel sorry for people who didn't get on this crazy train at the beginning. Cus I would hate to try and catch up. Actually someone needs to get with Disney and make a Marvel Cinamatic Universe abridged. You know something that condenses the movies down to the twenty minutes that are vital to understand who they, who their main opponent is and the seasons down to like two hours. Cus fuck. Zoomi posted a few pages back like the proper order to watch it all in and I was doing the math and was like, holy shit. It's like sixty hours. . .and getting worse all the fucking time.
 
You know I'm really starting to feel sorry for people who didn't get on this crazy train at the beginning. Cus I would hate to try and catch up. Actually someone needs to get with Disney and make a Marvel Cinamatic Universe abridged. You know something that condenses the movies down to the twenty minutes that are vital to understand who they, who their main opponent is and the seasons down to like two hours. Cus fuck. Zoomi posted a few pages back like the proper order to watch it all in and I was doing the math and was like, holy shit. It's like sixty hours. . .and getting worse all the fucking time.

You know what's sick, though? I tried to do that list last September before S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 came out when I got both Winter Soldier and Season 1 on disc...and...it's HAAARD. :D

Don't get me wrong though, it's fun as fuck to do them all in order. You will get a real, true, honest appreciation of what Marvel has done with their properties and they will enhance them all. Even see things you missed in previous watchings. And I may do it all over again before Ultron comes out. Only thing is I've already binge-watched Winter Soldier and Guardians twice because I really dig those joints and they're super fun to watch when I'm boozing and pizza partying at home. :D
 
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You know what's sick, though? I tried to do that list last September before S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 came out when I got both Winter Soldier and Season 1 on disc...and...it's HAAARD. :D

Don't get me wrong though, it's fun as fuck to do them all in order. You will get a real, true, honest appreciation of what Marvel has done with their properties and they will enhance them all. Even see things you missed in previous watchings. And I may do it all over again before Ultron comes out. Only thing is I've already binge-watched Winter Soldier and Guardians twice because I really dig those joints and they're super fun to watch when I'm boozing and pizza partying at home. :D

Remember before S.H.I.E.L.D. S2 is also before Agent Carter, soon to before Avengers 2 so on and so forth. And I get it if you love the movies. God knows I usually get around either once a year or once every other year lap through Buffy and Angel. Which combined is eleven 22 episode seasons and one twelve I think. (I forget I just know Buffy Season one was a mid season replacement. It's over two hundred forty hours.) So I get how lovers can do it, but I'm talking about new people. Hell in a couple of years we're gonna be far enough from Ironman that the kids watching Avengers: Infinity Wars had parents who hadn't met when Iron Man started.

And I can practically put Guardians on a loop and just walk around my house.
 
Hell in a couple of years we're gonna be far enough from Ironman that the kids watching Avengers: Infinity Wars had parents who hadn't met when Iron Man started.

Funny that you mention this. I remember standing in line for the first X-Men movie way back in the mid-90s and some of the people I went to see it with that I see every blue moon now are married with kids. Life is funny.

Can you imagine what it would be like now if Marvel had had complete control over all of their properties from jump street and the MCU had started out being fully connected? Spider-Man would be a different level right now.

But, you know, evolution. We had to go through a lot of somethings to get to this point. Superhero movies were on the verge of being a dud industry of chancey campy crappy one-offs in the mid-aughts until Iron Man flipped the script. Now even everyone's grandmother knows what a Kree is and Professor X's childhood. It's really a good time being a fanboy/fangirl now.
 
In fairness to Sony two of it's three Spiderman movies where between good and great. It's really just that last one where the producers (and fanboys) wanted Venom who Sam Raimi hates and Sam Raimi wanted Sandman who everybody hates and. . .yeah. It's hard to blame them. The X-Men movies depending on your mood were always a mixed bag. Campy? A bit, but not terrible until 3 or Origins. And they've been on roll. First Class was damn good, Days of Future Past was way more than just servicible, even the Wolverine is watchable if screwed up with the Silver Samurai.

But yeah, the comic movies were kinda bad back them. Though one day my friend made me watch the Batmen movies basically with the 90's stuff flipped around and. . .yeah it's SO much better that way. I'm not saying Batman Forever or Batman and Robin suddenly became good. But if you watch Arnold, Jim Carrey, Uma Therman and. . .whoever was Two-Face with Adam West Batman fresh in your head instead of Tim Burton it's a LOT different. Like Schumaker watched Adam West and said "Do Want!" And ignored the darker tone set by Batman and kinda sort Batman Returns.

Honestly I just hope I'm around when I can look around at Video Game movies not named Silent Hill (which I think is deeply underrated by the general public) and the first Mortal Kombat and say, we can do that too! Okay Tomb Raider didn't suck. . .anymore than National Treasure or any random Indiana Jones flick if I'm feeling a bit generous. But that's the next group that needs to step the fuck up and there are some damn good franchises floating around. Considering how huge Lord of the Rings is I'm mildly shocked people are tripping over themselves to make Zelda. I mean. . .you call up Orlando Bloom and tell him he needs to use more sword, less bow, dump in in New Zealand come back add in the CGI and walk away. It really should be THAT simple.
 
Funny that you mention this. I remember standing in line for the first X-Men movie way back in the mid-90s and some of the people I went to see it with that I see every blue moon now are married with kids. Life is funny.

Can you imagine what it would be like now if Marvel had had complete control over all of their properties from jump street and the MCU had started out being fully connected? Spider-Man would be a different level right now.

But, you know, evolution. We had to go through a lot of somethings to get to this point. Superhero movies were on the verge of being a dud industry of chancey campy crappy one-offs in the mid-aughts until Iron Man flipped the script. Now even everyone's grandmother knows what a Kree is and Professor X's childhood. It's really a good time being a fanboy/fangirl now.
I'd say Batman Begins set the bar, and then Marvel Studios built on it with Iron Man three years later.

I remember people not being sure what we'd get with Nolan/Bale, and whether it would be "too cerebral" for a comic book movie . . . as if comic fans are drooling morons. It was the first of the movies that went really serious, and nailed it. Nolan also showed what it would take to do a successful trilogy, something that comic movies seemed to have difficulty with (see Spider-man, the previous Batman, Superman, X-Men . . . I know X-Men Last Stand was successful, but the film itself was a turd).

Now, cheese is out . . . serious cinema is in.
 
You know I'm really starting to feel sorry for people who didn't get on this crazy train at the beginning. Cus I would hate to try and catch up. Actually someone needs to get with Disney and make a Marvel Cinamatic Universe abridged. You know something that condenses the movies down to the twenty minutes that are vital to understand who they, who their main opponent is and the seasons down to like two hours. Cus fuck. Zoomi posted a few pages back like the proper order to watch it all in and I was doing the math and was like, holy shit. It's like sixty hours. . .and getting worse all the fucking time.

You know, I really think I would like the show, but I didn't get in on the beginning, so feel lost when I try to watch it.
 
It's not just the show from the beginning. I was lost for most of the second half of S1 because they assume everybody watches their shit day one. I mean I could go look it up because I'm probably exaggerating a bit, but Captain America: The Winter Soldier has major fall out on Agents of Sheild and the movie came out like on a Thursday and the first episode dealing with that fall out was on the following Tuesday.
 
The REAL S.H.I.E.L.D........

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'Agents of SHIELD': What is the 'real SHIELD'?

By Terri Schwartz
Mar 17th, 2015

"Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" ended its March 17 episode with another big cliffhanger related to Bobbi Morse's (Adrianne Palicki) and Mack's (Henry Simmons) ulterior motives. After previously establishing that they aren't working for HYDRA, Mack reveals to Lance Hunter (Nick Blood) that they work for "SHIELD. The real SHIELD."

Cut to a dramatic shot of this organization's logo: The SHIELD eagle condensed to fit on an actual shield shape, with three stars instead of five. As Mack makes clear in his explanation to Hunter, he and Bobbi believe they're working for the good guys.

"For a while there, it all went to hell," Mack says. "It was bad, but now Bobbi and I work for an organization, an outlier, that came out of the wreckage from what [Nick] Fury left."

RELATED: Just what are Bobbi and Mack up to on 'Agents of SHIELD'?

That raises the obvious question: What is the "real SHIELD"? Based on the next episode's synopsis viewers will find out in a week, but for now here are five theories:

1. Maria Hill and the Avengers

While many people have been guessing that Bobbi and Mack are secretly working for Nick Fury, the fact that Mack refers to the post-Fury SHIELD as "wreckage" seems to hint he's not their boss. They could, however, be working with Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), who audiences last saw with Tony Stark at Avengers Tower. It would make sense that Stark would try to help remedy the mess that SHIELD became.

2. Gen. Talbot and the U.S. government

Another possibility is that Bobbi and Mack are agents working for Gen. Talbot (Adrian Pasdar). He's been a recurring character on "Agents of SHIELD" and has a clear interest in what Coulson (Clark Gregg) is up to. He could be using informants like Bobbi and Mack to keep tabs on what Coulson's SHIELD is doing while working toward the same goal.

3. STRIKE

STRIKE -- or Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies -- is already established in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and played a small part in the events of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." While in that movie it was revealed that STRIKE was full of HYDRA traitors, it could be that it got a major overhaul like SHIELD and recruited former agents, like Mack and Bobbi. Considering Lance Hunter was a major member of STRIKE in the Marvel comics, it would make sense for him to be brought into the organization, as Mack is seemingly trying to do.

4. SWORD

SWORD, another organization from the Marvel comics, focuses on extraterrestrial threats -- hence its name, Sentient World Observation and Response Department. Though the introduction of SWORD might be a bit premature, it could be that there already is an organization in the MCU preparing for threats like the Inhumans. That would explain why Bobbi and Mack are working for Coulson, who had the Kree GH325 serum used on him.

5. HAMMER

Last and least likely there's HAMMER, yet another organization from the comics, but with more nefarious purposes. Long story short: HAMMER was created during a defensive restructuring in the aftermath of the Skrulls invading Earth, but it was run by Norman Osborn (aka Green Goblin), who's not exactly a shining hero. "Agents of SHIELD" could be telling its own riff on this storyline, which could mean that though Mack and Bobbi think they're working for the good guys, they actually are doing something bad.


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